title: AIDS impact on women and children in Africa.
abstract: Some 2 million women around the world are infected with HIV and it is estimated that the number of infected women may overtake the number of infected men by the mid-1990s. But the effect of AIDS on women does not stop here. An incalculable number of women are affected by the economic and social consequences of the disease. Below, the plight of the women in Africa.
authors.affiliation: WHO Regional Nursing/Midwifery Task Force, Nairobi, Kenya.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Kiereini
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D000349:Africa / Q000453:epidemiology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005190:Family; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D011203:Poverty; D013240:Stereotyping